Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Provided by pport has been and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, alison stewart. Stewart good evening and thanks for joining us. Wheels down in havana for air force one, as barack obama becomes the first sitting u. S. President to visit cuba since Calvin Coolidge almost 90 years ago. The president will spend a busy two days on the communistruled island nation. Reporter only eight months after the flag was raised at the reopened u. S. Embassy in cuba, for the first time in more than half a century, the streets of havana are decorated with american flags and images of president obama. The president and the first family are beginning their cuban visit with a walking tour of historic old havana
Where hes going to be at exactly what time. Reporter lets begin witith the schedule. We know hes going to old havana. But before he gets the old havana, hes going to be at the American Embassy. The question that w all have is will president raul castro meet him at the airport. Theres some doubt about whether or not that will happen when you look at the schedule. There has been no official comment just yet. We were thinking it would be likely that he would be there to meet with him, however, when you look at that schedule, he lands at 4 50, ten minutes before 5 00, and hes scheduled to be on the car 15 minutes after that. So that would be a short ceremony to say the least. Reporter then down to the American Embassy, and as we know, it officially became an amereran embassy back in august of last year, and the flag went up for the very first time in more than five decades. Reporter then from the embassy he will head down into old havana. There he will head to the cathedral the meet with t
Correspondent brian ross now with the latest on the investigation. Reporter with the rebels controlling the crash scene, the investigation of what happened and why is already facing serious questions and obstacles that could create a showdown with russia. Even that dramatic footage of the moment of impact is being questioned as u. S. Officials point fingers of blame at the prorussian rebels. They ask who happened to have a camera rolling at the precise direction and time the plane was blown out of the sky bursting into flames. Almost immediately the prorussian rebels moved in to secure and take control of the crash scene and the debris field that stretches over ten miles. A gruesome landscape littered with pieces of malaysian flight 17. Remains and personal belongings of the 295 on board. A tourist guide to bali unscathed. At the scene was john wendell, a freelance reporter for abc news. Reporter theres blood splattered everywhere and pieces of remains. Reporter tonight the rebels clai
Situation. The secretary is of course aware of these reports. Were seeking additional information. Good evening. Im ama daetz in for cheryl jennings. Im larry beil. A missile fired from the ground brought down flight 17. 298 people on board, 3 infants have just been added to the death toll. We do not have confirmation of how many, if any, americans were on board though the guess is somewhere around 25. Most of the passengers were europeans, on a flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. Witnesses reported seeing a rocket blast hit the plane when it was above eastern ukraine. Parts of the plane and bodies are scattered up to ten miles from the main crash site. Ukraine security blames russian separatists for the attack and they plan to submit phone calls reported as evidence of a plot and emergency United Nations meeting tomorrow. Russian president Vladimir Putin said today, ukraine is to blame because of the unrest in that area. President obama talked to putin as well as ukraines president
Rain. We have not had any hail reports just yet. But the thunderstorms that you see outlined with the orange shading are capable of producing quartersize hail and wind dusts in excess of wind gusts in excess of 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour. As we zoom in on thunderstorm number one, this one, which is moving through Faulkner County is under Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 6 45. Its slowly moving to the east at about 15 Miles Per Hour heading towards manassas. This other thunderstorm, which is moving at about 30 Miles Per Hour also is a severe thunderstorm. It is just kind of grazing the northern edges of the District Of Columbia here on the broadcast house in northwest dc. Weve been hearing the thunder and lightning, expected to head into northern Prince Georges County at 6 43. Youll get this storm at about 6 55. Heavy downpours are possible as we are looking at the rainfall rates in excess of oneinch per hour with this system. And when andrea was showing us the live pictures, you could se